Loading an MP3 file through php validation for "streaming" in flash player

[eluser]amites[/eluser]
has anyone here done this?

I have setup a program to validate that a user has access to a given mp3 file, from there they have the options of downloading it or listening to it through a flash player that is designed to access the file directly through an HTTP protocol (not actual streaming)

The download part works well using:

Code:

<?php
header("Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: hack"); // WTF? oh well, it works...
header("Content-Type: " . $mm_type);
header("Content-Length: " .(string)(filesize($file_path)) );
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$file_name.'"');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");

readfile($file_path);

?>

however I have had one hell of a time getting it to load into a mp3 player, I figure it has something to do with the "Content-Transfer-Encoding" though I'm honestly in a bit over my head at this point.

any thoughts / advice / help / examples / etc...

thank you

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
What mp3 swf player are you using? any popular one?
I am using CI's helpers:

Code:

(...)
$this->load->helper('file');
$this->load->helper('download');
force_download($data['filename'],read_file('./mp3/'.$data['filename']));
(...)

This works for downloading and http "streaming" to the swf player.

[eluser]amites[/eluser]
I appreciate the advice, still not getting this working though

currently looks like

Code:

$this->load->helper(array('file', 'download'));
            force_download($m['name'], read_file($file));

echo of $m['name'] = Test 1

echo of $file = D:\Web-Sites\Heritage Web Design\Erik Ohanessian\hidden\mp3\01-Joe-Satriani-Not-Of-This-Earth.mp3
(this is a real file I can open in Firefox directly)

tried it with and without the read_file, comes up blank when I open the page

any ideas?

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
Try the filename without space.
Try a relative path instead of the absolute one.
Try php native functions like readfile just to check if you have access to the file.

[eluser]amites[/eluser]
Not sure why the helper didn't want to work for me, though ti did give me the template for a file_stream view that does work,

thank you!

for general reference:

Code:

<?php
    header('Content-Type: "application/octet-stream"');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$file_name.'"');
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Pragma: no-cache');
    header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file_path));

    readfile($file_path);
?>